If Napoleon had conquered England and brought his wooden rulers with him, I might have been done for. Mercilessly ...
On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized (and ...
A remarkable archive documenting Napoleon's final days in exile has come to light after more than 200 years. The never-before-seen cache of material includes a candid witness account describing his ...
A bounty of more than 100 Napoleon objects stunned at Sotheby’s Paris auction on Wednesday, when it raked in €8.3 million ($9.7 million), beating its presale estimate of €6 million ($7 million).
About an hour into Ridley Scott's epic movie, the cinema screen is filled with the sumptuous Imperial Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine. It is a telling moment – a turning point in the history of ...
This article contains spoilers for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Even in the first trailer, it is an immensely chilly spectacle. On a frozen field in central Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, the supreme general ...